FreP

Frequency Patterns of Phonological Objects in Portuguese - Research and Applications

The FreP project is a contribution to the knowledge of the frequency patterns of phonological objects in the Portuguese language. Such knowledge is known to be relevant for many areas of fundamental research and its applications. The project has 3 chief goals: (1) the development of the FreP electronic tool for the automatic computation of frequency information; (2) the creation of a database of frequency patterns of phonological units in different types of corpora, to be used as reference information; (3) the application of both the FreP tool and the database to (i) research on adult phonology and the comparison of European (EP) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP), (ii) language acquisition and development, (iii) forensic research, (iv) teaching/learning of Portuguese grammar. Besides the new insights into adult and child speech, or into language variation, the project has as outcomes new language resources for EP and BP, namely the extended FreP tool, the frequency patterns database, and teaching/learning electronic materials.

Project outputs

FreP, a tool for the automatic computation of frequency information.

Martins, F., M. Vigário & S. Frota. 2009. FreP – Frequências no Português. Software. Version 2.0. (IGAC 5969/2009).

See the FreP demo here. See the FreP Manual here.

To use FreP, please contact Fernando Martins.

FrePOP, a database of frequency patterns of phonological units.
Frota, S., M. Vigário, F. Martins & M. Cruz. 2010. FrePOP. Version 1.0. Laboratório de Fonética (CLUL), Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. Available online http://frepop.fl.ul.pt/

FreP_B, the Brazilian Portuguese version of FreP.

Martins, F., M. Vigário, S. Frota & F. Fernandes-Svartman. 2011. FreP_B Frequency in Portuguese – Brazilian variety. Version 3.0 (IGAC provisional nº 3718/2011).

To use FreP_B, please contact Fernando Martins.

FreP_LUDO, tools for teaching/learning European Portuguese
Martins, F., M. Vigário & S. Frota. 2011. FreP_LUDO. Version 3.0 (IGAC, provisional nº 3719/2011).

To use FreP_LUDO, please contact Fernando Martins.

TP, a tool for the automatic computation of transitional probabilities (runs over the FreP phonetic output)

Garcia J. & V. Gonzalez-Lopez. 2010. TP - Transitional Probabilities (Version 0.12). In Collaboration with Project Rhythmic Patterns, Prosodic Domains and Probabilistic Modeling of Portuguese Corpora, Brazil.